Geoffrey,
I should have known!.
I am trying to keep on railway topics
discussing the complexities of topping up
Britannia,s from a "Tonbridge Well" and you go "off topic"
talking about pubs and drinking for pleasure.
I guess the rumours we heard about who was the ringleader of
the bar flies at DH were true. No wonder your engines look pristine,
they never get steamed.
(You did say you never ran engines at DH, only watched?).
I was waiting for someone to ask what a "Shea" engine looked
like, who made it ,
what did it cost and when would it be available, as opposed to a Shay.
I understand they are being made to use up all the left hand
driver parts remaining from the original Shay,s. Apparently some
young engineer in Japan was doing a material review of G1 Shay
rejects and found all these left hand lost wax
brass parts. Originally nobody realised that full sized Shays were
one sided when designing the models, till it was too late.
He had this brilliant idea to recover the costs, and make
left handed Shay,s. But he
cannot use the same name, because someone already owns the
intellectual property rights of the original Shay name.
This is not a problem, as his grandfathers name was O'Shea Hu Wang.
I still think he should keep the real model name as an
O'
Shea. The name has a romantic history behind it, particularly as
the original O'
Shea,s could not walk a straight line and had to follow the
local railway lines to get home.
It is no co-incidence that all tracks laid down
for Shays are not straight, had
tight curves and waved up and down. It has nothing to do
with the loggers and the lumber camps. (American Romantiscism) .
The original builders could never envision a straight track
and they had never seen one.
I understand the new O'
Shea engines will be un Corked sometime around 4-1-01.
Guy Fawkes of Ashby-de-la Zouch, (Castle Abbey).
At 12:17 PM 3/21/01 -0800, Geoff Spenceley wrote:
> Doesn't Tunbridge Wells have some good pubs? Kent is beautiful--good
>apples too! My father's family is from Kent--I think Knights were still
>around then.
>
>Uncle Geoff.
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> Question;- What is Tunbridge Wells?.
> >
> >Not what, but where? It is (was!) a very genteel town in Kent - South East
> >England for the geographically challenged. (England is part of an island on
> >the Eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean.)
> >
> >Many years ago, "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" was the pseudonym used by a
> >regular correspondent to (I think) the BBC - or was it The Times
> >newspaper? - and the phrase has since been absorbed into the language.
> >
> >Mike (old enough to remember, but not as old as uncle Geoff.)
> >
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